Who's who among Virginia political donors

By
Paige Winfield Cunningham

Virginia is a bit of an exhibitionist. We keep an election calendar that’s opposite to every other state but New Jersey. Habits we’ve held forever–like always electing a Democratic majority to our legislature and always voting for the Republican presidential candidate–we’ve overturned in the last decade.

Pundits like to say Virginia is a bellwether state. If we are indeed the country’s thermometer, it’s especially interesting to look at who’s investing in races here. The top 10 donors to the 2009 Virginia races were:

Paige Winfield Cunningham is an investigative reporter and managing editor at Old Dominion Watchdog. The Local Blog Network is a group of bloggers from around the D.C. region who have agreed to make regular contributions to All Opinions Are Local.